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White Sands and the Green Fireballs

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From December 1948 bright green spheres began to be seen regularly over New Mexico, moving horizontally and without sound. Most of them were seen over closed installations — this range, Los Alamos, Kirtland base — and the witnesses were guards, pilots and scientists. The Air Force took it seriously: Lincoln La Paz, an astronomer and meteor specialist, ran an observation programme called Twinkle that set cameras and theodolites across the state. La Paz insisted these were not meteors: the trajectory was too horizontal, the colour too uniform, and no fragment was ever found. The programme closed in 1951 without a result. Reports of green fireballs in the region continue.

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